A coalition of Christian conservative organizations and leaders has joined a recent campaign looking for to mobilize churches to push for the overturning of the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
Known because the Greater Than campaign, the hassle is spearheaded by the advocacy group Them Before Us and includes amongst its supporters Focus on the Family, Live Action, the Colson Center, Word on Fire, the American Family Association and Citizens for Renewing America.
The ultimate goal is to get the Supreme Court to overturn the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which held that the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects same-sex marriage.
Greater Than describes itself as a “coalition of fogeys, students, researchers, think tanks, influencers, and residents who’re willing to state the self-evident but costly truth: children need, deserve, and have a right to their mother and father.”
Individuals expressing their support for the campaign include pro-life activist Lila Rose, The Blaze talk show host Steve Deace, Princeton University Professor Robert P. George, and creator and speaker Heidi St. John.
“When marriage was redefined in 2015, parenthood was too. Once husbands and wives became optional, moms and dads became replaceable,” states the campaign’s website.
“But for a baby, their mother and father are never optional; they’re essential. Children need each a mother and a father to offer stability, guidance, and the unique love only a person and woman can provide. No adult desire or ideology can change that.”
Katy Faust, founder and president of Them Before Us, told The Christian Post in an interview Thursday that her group was inspired to launch the campaign last yr because the country neared the 10-year anniversary of the choice.
“It dawned on us: has anybody really, really put together an effort to overturn this?” Faust recalled. “I kept pondering, one other organization that has more legal chops than we do was ultimately going to do it. But it dawned on us leading as much as the 10-year anniversary that no, this might be something that we want to do.”
“We can pull in quite a lot of other wonderful, faithful, grounded, virtuous, clear-eyed organizations into the combo, because there’s quite a lot of those that have been steadfast before Obergefell and … I believe are ready to essentially make an effort to take it down.”
The campaign has three components, Faust said. The first is “a judicial strategy” that she believes “has the likelihood and I might say likelihood of success.”
The second component is an effort at “changing public opinion,” with Faust saying “Americans need to grasp the threat that gay marriage poses to children and that natural marriage is directly connected to children protection.”
The third component involves mobilizing churches, which Faust hopes to rework into “a child-centered fighting force.” The campaign plans to develop “materials that each Protestants and Catholics can use to grasp why natural marriage is God’s plan A for child protection,” Faust said.
Released on June 26, 2015, the 5-4 Obergefell decision struck down state-level constitutional bans on same-sex marriage, with Justice Anthony Kennedy authoring the bulk opinion.
“The Constitution guarantees liberty to all inside its reach, a liberty that features certain specific rights that allow individuals, inside a lawful realm, to define and express their identity,” wrote Kennedy.
“The petitioners in these cases seek to seek out that liberty by marrying someone of the identical sex and having their marriages deemed lawful on the identical terms and conditions as marriages between individuals of the alternative sex.”
In 2022, the Obergefell ruling was federally codified when a Democratic-controlled United States Congress passed bipartisan-supported laws, which then-President Joe Biden signed into law.
Recently, social conservatives have tried to advance legal challenges within the hopes that the more right-leaning modern-day Supreme Court will overturn the 2015 decision.
Last November, nevertheless, the high court denied without comment a petition filed by former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis to reconsider the 2015 ruling.
Faust told CP that she was “actually glad they didn’t take up the case,” as she believed that Davis “was the flawed victim and she or he was asking the flawed questions.”
“Children have lost their mother or father. They are being commodified. Parental rights themselves are being weakened due to gay marriage,” Faust said.
“The real query before the court shouldn’t be ‘does gay marriage provide some type of inconvenience for Christian adults?’ The query before the court must be ‘do children need, profit from, deserve and have a right to their very own mother and father?'”
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